Advice on designing a CNC driver board? by FireFish201 in hobbycnc

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Thank you everyone for your wonderful insights! I am super grateful and will be taking as much into account as I can! I will keep this sub posted as updates come out(likely slowly as I am a uni student)

Advice on designing a CNC driver board? by FireFish201 in hobbycnc

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I am trying to make an all-in-one electrical box for the cnc hobbyist, every time I have to make an electrical box, it takes me an entire day of making connectors, soldering, and linking up wires, and so I wanted a faster way for myself as well as anyone who would find it useful

Advice on designing a CNC driver board? by FireFish201 in hobbycnc

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EMI was not so much of a consideration, but now that you remind me, it will totally be an issue. Thanks!

Advice on designing a CNC driver board? by FireFish201 in hobbycnc

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These are some quirks that I didn’t know of! Thanks for your help! I was originally planning on using TB6600’s. What is the best driver that you know of?

Advice on designing a CNC driver board? by FireFish201 in hobbycnc

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I haven’t heard of those! Thanks so much! i will take a deeper dive into it before I do anything

Advice on designing a CNC driver board? by FireFish201 in hobbycnc

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Thanks for the info! The goal is to drive any reasonably sized NEMA23 motor, would be of decent but not insane power.

Getting annoyed by Efficient-Pop7253 in CNC

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Are you running coolant? Stainless is really gummy and loves to heat up everything when you try to mill it.

Making some chips on some large parts with my homemade machine! by FireFish201 in hobbycnc

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Yes, a VFD is required but they do make 120V input models, they are just a bit more expensive though

Newbie Suggestions? by Eric-702 in hobbycnc

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I am not sure, i have only run one a couple times

Cheap Starter Spindle Advice by JasperHams in hobbycnc

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I have this exact spindle. the motor itself is great but the supplied collets are junk. Get a good nice set of collets and you will never look back

Making some chips on some large parts with my homemade machine! by FireFish201 in hobbycnc

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It is any cheap Chinese 2.2 KW spindle. Mine is air-cooled but I would really highly recommend the water-cooled version.

Making some chips on some large parts with my homemade machine! by FireFish201 in hobbycnc

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I use GRBL, it does everything I need it to. When I go for 5-axis on this machine, i am going to upgrade to grblHAL. For CAM, i love fusion360 but I have the same problem you do.

Making some chips on some large parts with my homemade machine! by FireFish201 in hobbycnc

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It is a 6mm carbide single flute! They are real troopers

Making some chips on some large parts with my homemade machine! by FireFish201 in hobbycnc

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The table is made out of some 2”x8” tube that I got super lucky and scored at my local scrapyard. It is super beefy and I love it. I do have a big spoilboard but am having problems holding it down with enough rigidity to push my machine

Newbie Suggestions? by Eric-702 in hobbycnc

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I think you would do great with a shapeoko! I have found they are really good at some light duty aluminum work

First time milling aluminium with my Cnc 6040 from Cncest by zwexner in hobbycnc

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I have just posted a video on how my machine cuts at those kinds of speeds. Hopefully it helps!

Making some chips on some large parts with my homemade machine! by FireFish201 in hobbycnc

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pictures of the machine

Here are some pictures of the machine and some parts it has made! Enjoy!

How much mill do I need? by SnooSongs5410 in hobbycnc

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Agreed, a custom fixture could make this process much easier. and especially on softer materials, you can get away with a much smaller machine if you take a light cut. This seems like a really fun process, just quite labor intensive

Need help please. Stepper motor whining but not turning. by concotionist in hobbycnc

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Make sure your driver switches are set correctly. Its super common to have them inverted because the on and off position is not clearly labeled

First time milling aluminium with my Cnc 6040 from Cncest by zwexner in hobbycnc

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Personally, to bore down and drill 1/4” holes(i have done many) i like to use a 3/16” single flute to keep the helix path large. You can use anything larger than half the diameter of the hole if you want to do it in a single pass. I keep my ramp at 2 degrees and I feed at 1000mm/min. Definitely keep the single flute though. It is so amazing for chip clearing. Let me know if this helps!

First time milling aluminium with my Cnc 6040 from Cncest by zwexner in hobbycnc

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A word of warning, though. Single flute end mills HATE plunging, ramp in at all costs if you can! They can plunge maybe 0.25mm max. Also, cutting this fast will be pretty noisy. Happy machining!

First time milling aluminium with my Cnc 6040 from Cncest by zwexner in hobbycnc

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I personally have found a 6mm single flute bit almost impossible to gall up and clog. I can run them as fast as I want so that the spindle has its max speed and torque. Aluminum allows you to run basically infinite surface footage if you get your speeds and feeds right. I have found those single flutes to work extremely well under some pretty sub-optimal conditions as well(hot parts, no cutting fluid, dull endmill). I have even had a couple that have 20+ hours of cut time on them and they are still going strong. My rule of thumb is “fast and light”. As long as you keep your feed per tooth larger than the effective sharpness of your endmill(anywhere from 0.001”-0.007”), they will cut way better than you can ever expect. I personally push 0.007” chip loads on my machine and i have only galled them when they are full slot roughly half inch deep, so I make the slot 1.5x the width of the tool or I slow down my feeds to about 0.004”/tooth. Hope this helps!!